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Re: Optimize file renaming.

by Tomtom (Scribe)
on May 26, 2005 at 08:00 UTC ( [id://460629]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Optimize file renaming.

I think you could use sprintf like : 
$result = sprintf("%07s", $name);

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"%07d", since your new file names would always 7 characters long.

Update : too late :(

Update : As blazar said, "%07d" is wrong, I updated it to "%07s", which seems to work better : sorry for the mistake.

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Re^2: Optimize file renaming.
by blazar (Canon) on May 26, 2005 at 08:32 UTC 
    $ echo '1.png' | perl -lpe '$_=sprintf "%07d", $_'
0000001

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